Saturday, April 6, 2024

Martin Walsh


 


 

A portrait of Martin I drew while I was visiting him the other day.

I haven't be drawing people (or anything)much and I'm missing it so I hope to do more now. Also of bands and scenes

Friday, April 5, 2024

Waterloo Towers and Botany Road

 
This is a view from out front of Ochredfern Gallery, which I painted during Visions from Underground , my recent exhibition  (from March19-28)





 

Friday, March 29, 2024

Visions from Underground

I'd like to thank Dune Surf at Ochredfern for letting me put on this show of work I had mostly not exhibited from the past several years while I was at the Junkyard plus a couple of newer pieces

 
The front window with Central from Eddy Avenue displayed in it 
 

And again, with the signboard and more cars reflected


 Govetts Leap, Watsons Bay and Centrepoint from Woolloomooloo


 

 
Angry Cars(View from the Junkyard) and Damo Shadow Boxing (in its backyard). The front room was devoted to mostly daylight images in conventional colours, with this wall dominated by large paintings


 
Under Centrepoint and the Marooned shed 
and Marching Cranes, Busking in Newtown and Govetts leap again

 
The corner
 
A wider view

King Ed's Horse, A portrait of Charles Freyberg and Stephen Edwards and his dog Fred

 

View from the Junkyard, View from Weave, and Crane on the Crest (also looking towards Kings Cross from my temporary studio at Weave in Woolloomooloo when I was painting a large triptych for them - of Woolloomooloo)

 
A last image of the right wall along with the front window(and the back of Damo Shadow Boxing)

 
A viewer looks at the paintings on the other wall of the front room

 
There's a lot of them! 
This section near the door contains - in columns from top left
Julian Assange, Creepy George, Bullets in the Park,
the QVB, King St at Night,
Pink construction site, The Townie from the Hub, and View along the Railway Tracks(am)

 
Trees Through Rainclouds , Central Park,
Destruction of Gaza, The old Bushels factory from Cabarita,
Woolloomooloo Cliff, The Old Dairy Cottage and Waiting for the Postman

 
The show alongside the painting of the neighbourhood I was working on out front
 

 
 
Bent trees on Short St, and
Golden Grove St


 
 
The back room was fluoro. UV pigment in oil as well as regular oil colour
These are Isolation View, and Geraniums at mums
Fire in California, and Carpark next Door(night) ,
and Bushfire Interior

 

 
Looking along the Railway tracks(pm), and
Suburb on Fire
 
 
 
Fire Whirl

 
Night view from Waterloo

 
Burning Mountainside

 
South Coast Fire, 2019-20 (Conrad Martens)

 
Light Industrial Sofa

 
Lairy Flea

 
Geraniums at Mums



 
Flood and Fire(Lismore 2022)





 
And the the antechamber of the Cabinet sit the politicians, outside the toilet door


Perrotet, and
the Ex's back


 
Dan, Gladys, and the Health Jokers, Hazzard and Hunt

Making Climate Great Again 
 

And back out onto the street to the poster and the painting